Watermelon Sangria Recipe (easy & healthy) - Clean Cooking with Caitlin (2024)

Pro tip: pureé the watermelon with a blender or mixer, and aim at removing all the bigger chunks! This ensures a better texture and a more round taste to the drink!

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Watermelon Sangria: how to balance drinking alcohol with a healthy lifestyle! 🍉

Incorporating alcohol into a healthy lifestyle? Easy if you know how to do it!
Here are some easy tips on how to do it, and have a more relaxed approach to diet and nutrition.

But first, I would like to note that this section is not intended to promote drinking alcohol. On the contrary, if you are sober, or don’t like the taste of alcohol, it is totally fine – and certainly better for your liver! This article aims just at showing how it is possible to be healthy whilst not restricting some “less healthy” foods and drinks.

1. Adopt an 80/20 approach

My first tip is to adopt an “80/20 approach” toward nutrition. This means eating nourishing foods 80% of the time, whilst leaving 20% for less nutritious foods. Alcohol is often defined as “empty calories” since the nutritional profile of alcohol is quite poor. However, learning moderation with alcohol, and therefore being able to fit it into “the 20%”, is the right way to go. Everything in moderation is always the best policy!

2. Set a drinking goal for the week

If you want to hold yourself accountable for this, set a drinking goal for the week. Choose a set amount of drinks you want to aim for the week and stick to it. Every time you’re tempted to pour yourself an additional glass, remind yourself how it will impact your long-term overall health. Drink smarter, not harder.

3. Pace your drinking with water

Another suggestion is to make sure that your first drink of the night is a glass of water and to pace your drinking with plain H2O or sparkling water. For every alcoholic beverage, you should have one to two drinks of water. In this way, you will not only limit the amount of alcohol you are going to consume, but you will also prevent annoying hangovers. Read this for more tips on how to deal with hangovers).

4. Opt for healthier, low-carb co*cktails

Last but not least, aim for “healthier”, low-carb co*cktails. As a general rule, try to limit the drink combinations higher in sugar (for example Pina Colada, or Margarita). Aim instead for relatively healthier alcoholic drinks. These include, for example, pure liquors such as vodka, whiskey, triple sec, scotch, gin, and tequila, as they all have zero carbs and therefore lower calories. It goes without saying that, in moderation, every type of drink is allowed… remember, balance is always the key!

Do you have any other good tips for enjoying a good drink while still eating a healthy diet? 🧐

Here are all my tips for incorporating alcohol into a healthy lifestyle! Let me know in the comments if you have any additional tips to add, and of course, if you like this recipe! And don’t forget to have a look at my new article all about watermelon and its amazing health benefits! 🍉

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